#so much of dicks story is just. bruce being this human tumor that dick tries (and fails) to separate from
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robins but ranked by how quickly they seem to have gotten to a "bruce is my dad" stage
1- jason. thats his dad. bruce didnt really have much competition given that jasons dad was practically nonexistent in his life.
2- damian. blood relation. not very enthusiastic about it after he bonds with dick and gets a taste of what a guardian can be, but still accepts it to some extent. same cant be said of bruce who insists on being Bad Weird about the whole thing.
3- tim. yes he did make up a whole fake uncle to dodge the adoption draft, but more so (from what he tells dick at least) bc he saw how messy/raw things were between dick and bruce and he didnt wanna make dick feel bad if bruce adopted him at that moment.
4- dick. he and bruce are so messy its not ok. even when bruce gave him the adoption papers it was so. they are trying so hard to be father and son but it does Not work for a variety of reasons. from personal conflicts, to dick having had the most loving original family of any of the others, to them wanting to be equals but already not being able to healthily manage that with the ex mentor-mentee relationship let alone a father-son one. the cant even navigate their former hero-sidekick dynamic their asses are NOT gonna be able to create a familial connection there. at BEST they might work up to brothers, but there's way too much history for father and son.
#listen to me. listen.#im normal.#uegh. making bruce-dick a father-son thing introduces a power dynamic that those two specifically have been shown to not navigate healthily#so much of dicks story is just. bruce being this human tumor that dick tries (and fails) to separate from#they are already so dysfunctional. i think if they tried to be father and son theyd both just Explode#is it the least healthy option for them.#bruce isnt great to any of the others but dick would lay down his life for bruce and thats what makes his case the most destructive#SORRY. SORRY. i dont know where all that came from. who said all that#the others are allowed to have that father-son dynamic bc they know how to leave and live their own lives without bruce and-#ok ok im shutting up wahhh#too many thoughts. in tiny brain
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